Bahá’u’lláh

Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the
Book of God with such standards and sciences as are
current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring
balance established amongst men. In this most
perfect balance whatsoever the peoples and kindreds
of the earth possess must be weighed, while the measure
of its weight should be tested according to its own
standard, did ye but know it.

The eye of My loving-kindness weepeth sore over
you, inasmuch as ye have failed to recognize the One
upon Whom ye have been calling in the daytime
and in the night season, at even and at morn. Advance,
O people, with snow-white faces and radiant
hearts, unto the blest and crimson Spot, wherein the
Sadratu’l-Muntahá is calling: “Verily, there is none
other God beside Me, the Omnipotent Protector, the
Self-Subsisting!”

O ye leaders of religion! Who is the man amongst
you that can rival Me in vision or insight? Where is
he to be found that dareth to claim to be My equal
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in utterance or wisdom? No, by My Lord, the All-Merciful!
All on the earth shall pass away; and this
is the face of your Lord, the Almighty, the Well-Beloved.

We have decreed, O people, that the highest and
last end of all learning be the recognition of Him
Who is the Object of all knowledge; and yet, behold
how ye have allowed your learning to shut you out,
as by a veil, from Him Who is the Day Spring of
this Light, through Whom every hidden thing hath
been revealed. Could ye but discover the source
whence the splendor of this utterance is diffused,
ye would cast away the peoples of the world and all
that they possess, and would draw nigh unto this
most blessed Seat of glory.

Say: This, verily, is the heaven in which the
Mother Book is treasured, could ye but comprehend
it. He it is Who hath caused the Rock to shout, and
the Burning Bush to lift up its voice, upon the Mount
rising above the Holy Land, and proclaim: “The
Kingdom is God’s, the sovereign Lord of all, the All-Powerful,
the Loving!”

We have not entered any school, nor read any of
your dissertations. Incline your ears to the words of
this unlettered One, wherewith He summoneth you
unto God, the Ever-Abiding. Better is this for you
than all the treasures of the earth, could ye but comprehend
it.